Commercial Finance Manager

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Commercial Finance Manager at Mattel will lead the Sales Finance function, encompassing Trade Spend, AR Deductions, Post Audits, and Treasury. Responsibilities include delivering financial insights, tracking expenditures, resolving customer disputes, and collaborating with stakeholders. This role demands strong analytical skills, a collaborative approach, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting. Specific duties involve managing budgets and forecasts for customer benefits, conducting profitability analysis, maintaining customer relationships, overseeing accounts receivable, ensuring SOX compliance, and driving process improvements. The position also includes team leadership and treasury oversight.
Must have:
  • CPA with 8+ years in commercial finance (FMCG preferred)
  • 3+ years people leadership experience
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with Salesforce, Oracle, Cognos, HPT
  • Experience in Trade Spend Management

Job Details

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

As the Commercial Finance Manager, you will lead the Sales Finance function, including Trade Spend, AR Deductions, Post Audits and Treasury. You’ll deliver financial insights, track expenditures versus forecasts, resolve customer disputes and working closely with the Head of Finance and key stakeholders. This hands-on role requires strong analytical skills, a collaborative mindset and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. 

What Your Impact Will Be: 

•  Trade Spend: Track budgets, lead forecasts, and develop dashboards for customer benefits
•  Profitability Analysis: Support decision-making with promotional deal analysis and customer P&L insights
•  Customer Relations: Maintain positive relationships and resolve AR and deduction disputes like post audits, shortages and non-compliance 
•  Accounts Receivables: Oversee AR function that is managed by shared service team to ensure timely payments, reduced aged AR and review AR reserves reconciliations 
•  Collaboration: Develop a close working relationship with the key stakeholders and shared services function
•  Team Leadership: Manage performance and develop direct reports
•  Treasury: Oversee treasury and cash flow reporting 
•  Compliance: Ensure SOX compliance and liaison with internal and external auditors
•  Process Improvement: Enhance efficiency and adapt to evolving business needs
•  Business support: Serves as a key point of contact to support the business on queries, new projects and problem resolutions
 

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For: 

•  CPA with 8+ years in commercial finance, preferably in FMCG.
•  3+ years of people leading experience. 
•  Advanced Excel and familiarity with Sales Force, Oracle, Cognos, HPT as added advantage
•  Highly analytical – able to translate analytical findings into actionable solutions and processes, adaptable, detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills and high degree of initiative 
• Collaborative with excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
 

Additional Information

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

  • We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
  • We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
  • We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:

We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Who We Are:

Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment.

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About The Company

We empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.


We treat play as if the future depends on it — because it does. Play is our language, and we speak to our consumers authentically by representing the world as they see and imagine it.


Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Monster High and MEGA, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies.

Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies.


Mattel is recognized as a Great Place to Work™ and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators.

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